The Native Americans: An Illustrated History [VINTAGE 1993]

Thomas, David Hurst; Miller, Jay; White, Richard; Nabokov, Peter; Deloria, Philip J.; Ballantine, Betty (editor); Ballantine, Ian (editor)

Edité par Turner Publishing, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, 1993

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Fine condition heavy oversized off-white cloth boards with maroon front cover illustration and maroon spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Introduction by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.; Tribes By Culture Area and Language Family; Bibliography; Index; Picture Credits; and Acknowledgments. Profusely illustrated with color paintings, color drawings, color maps, black-and-white photographs, and multiple page color frontispiece art; 449 illustrations total, with 301 in color and 148 in duotone. The blank first free front endpaper contains a neatly printed vintage 1993 Christmas gift inscription. "Dispossessed of their ancestral homelands by successive invasions of Europeans, the first real Americans have long been cloaked in a veil of myth and legend that has hidden from us the true richness and diversity of Indian civilizations and cultures. This newly unfolding legacy represents an unparalleled body of untapped wisdom, which even now provides fresh perspectives of very modern problems. The astonishing reality of Indian history, presented here for the first time from the perspective of native Americas, will deepen our understanding of what it really means to be an American. The archaeological history of the native peoples of the Americas goes back more than 30,000 years. By the time Columbus landed in this "New" World, it was a very old world that already had seen entire civilizations rise and fall through the centuries. These linked continents were by then populated by some 55,000,000 people who spoke 2,000 distinct languages and had develped a rich diversity of separate cultures, all joined in trade by a venerable network that covered the entire northern continent. Here, in a fresh look at the Americas, is a view of this "new" world's magnificent sweep of history through the eyes of its original inhabitants. It is an inspiring story of their amazing adaptability to a challenging land, especially in the past five hundred years when native Americans were force to cope with the introduction into their environment of the most rapacious predator they had ever faced: white European invaders. Spanning a thousand generations, from the time Ice Age man first set foot on this continent to the present, and beautifully written by five well-known authorities on Indian history and culture, this volume is lavishly illustrated with photographs, maps, and the work of both historic and contemporary artists." -- from the inner front jacket flap.

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• Titre: The Native Americans: An Illustrated History [VINTAGE 1993]
• Éditeur: Turner Publishing, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Impression: 4th Printing
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine